Mayor Emanuel on Tuesday appeared on "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," showing photos of the two after they emerged from icy Lake Michigan as part of the Polar Plunge in March.

"I came out, I heard bagpipes," Fallon said in a clip from the show NBC shared with RedEye prior to airing. "I looked around for bagpipers, because when you're Irish that's what you hear when you die."

The University of Illinois' rescinded job offer to a professor and a controversy over a faculty blog at Chicago State University helped land the two schools on a 2014 "worst of" list for student and faculty free speech rights.